Word: chrysanthemum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such things are likely to go on only in the big, sinful cities like London. In the Cheshire market town of Macclesfield last week the heavy betting all seemed to be above board as Chrysanthemum Champ Jim Jackson preened his finest blossoms for the local flower show. Macclesfield's wise money was all on the old champ's posies to cop the prizes, and only a few flashy characters, who were strangers to the town, bothered to play the long shots opposing Jim. Then, a day or so before the show, someone broke into the Jackson hothouse...
...Colonel lunched with Prime Minister Tetsu Katayama and his Cabinet, and received a lapel pin-a silver chrysanthemum. He made Japanese front pages by saying (as Japanese jingoes had said before) that Japan was overpopulated, and that Australia was just the place to relieve the "pressure...
...done it? How was it that the name of this small-town lawyer and congressional cloakroom compromiser was known with respect from the rag markets of Istanbul to the chrysanthemum parterres of Osaka...
...display looked like a schoolgirl's botany project. The little green leaves and wispy roots, neatly mounted on 14 neat white sheets, had pretty names-O Cheng Cho"v, Ti Chai Tzi, Sweet Chrysanthemum. But the exhibits of grass and herbs, no trophy of a schoolgirl's outing in the country, were part of an official report from the China office of UNRRA. The pretty names stood for wild leaves and stems and roots that the peasants of Hunan province (where 5,000,000 face death) have lived on for 40 days...
...Great Heart) is 56, unwrinkled, smooth-shaven from crown to chin except for a thin, reddish mustache. He lives incognito as a shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...